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British Portugal Fiction Graphic novels Great Britain History, Military 19th century Fiction Great Britain History, Naval 19th century Fiction Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 Fiction Peninsular War, 1807-1814 Fiction Sharpe, Richard (Fictitious character) Fiction Ship captains Fiction Short stories Trafalgar, Battle of, 1805 FictionCornwell, Bernard.
Summary: Richard Sharpe is twice a hero in Wellington's campaign to protect Spain against Napoleon, and is looking forward to promotion and eager to be on the leading edge of battle, but other conflicts ensue, including the need to protect his infant daughter and her mother, and the necessity to protect himself from a fellow officer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001
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Summary: In the year 1810 Napoleon is determined to conquer Portugal. But Captain Richard Sharpe leads the French directly into the Duke of Wellington's devastating defenses at Torres Vedras, where one of the great battles of the Napoleonic wars erupts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Summary: British soldier Richard Sharpe stands up to Napoleon's crack troops in the Iberian Peninsula while searching for the missing daughter of an English wine shipper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1987
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Summary: In the winter of 1811 the war seemed lost. All Spain has fallen to the French, except for Cadiz which is now the Spanish capital and is under siege. Wellington and his British army are in Portugal, waiting for spring to spark the war to life again. Richard Sharpe and his company are part of a small expeditionary force sent to break a bridge across the River Guadiana. What begins as a brilliant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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Summary: The greatest threat to Wellington's Salamanca Campaign is not Napoleon's Army but France's deadliest assassin. He's already failed to kill Captain Richard Sharpe once. Now, he's getting a second chance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1987
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Summary: Richard Sharpe, after winning the battle for the city of Toulouse, France, must find the person who has accused him of stealing a consignment of Napoleon's treasure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001
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Summary: Set against the sweeping panoply of Napoleons invasion of Russia, "War and Peace" is often considered the greatest novel ever written. This complete and unabridged edition features a new Introduction by Pat Conroy. Revised reissue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Signet Classic 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TOLTolstoy, Leo
Summary: A monumental work of fiction, Tolstoy's masterpiece of love and loss, tragedy and triumph is set against the panorama of the Napoleonic Wars at the dawn of the 19th century. An unforgettable story of two Russian families whose lives become intertwined amidst a collision of empires.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Book-of-the-Month Club 1994
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Summary: His voyage home should be a period of rest, but his ship is riven with treachery and threatened by the Revenant, a French sea-raider that is terrorizing British shipping in the Indian Ocean. Betrayed and defeated, Sharpe is imprisoned on the Ile de France, doomed to rot there until the war ends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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Summary: In 1812, after a successful British assault on Ciudad Rodrigo, Captain Richard Sharpe is dismayed to learn that his longtime friend, Colonel William Lawford, is severely injured. Meanwhile, Sharpe's longtime nemesis, Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill, joins the unit with diabolical intentions. To make matters worse, Sharpe is simultaneously demoted to lieutenant by his new commander. As the Battle of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2009
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Summary: In 1812, as Napoleon's forces continue to advance on the Iberian Peninsula, Captain Richard Sharpe of the British army is assigned to locate and capture the dangerous Colonel Philippe Leroux. However, Sharpe discovers that things are not as they appear to be, and must deal with the consequences of espionage and betrayal. Subsequently capturing Salamanca, Sharpe is able to finally confront...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2009
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Summary: "Philip Nolan: The Man Without a Country is Chuck Pfarrer's captivating adaptation of Edward Everett Hale's American classic "The Man Without a Country," first published in The Atlantic Monthly more than a century ago. Masterfully blending history and fiction, Pfarrer tells the story of a young artillery officer, Philip Nolan, who becomes embroiled in Aaron Burr's 1807 conspiracy to invade the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 2016
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Summary: Spring 1942. The United States is reeling from the blow inflicted at Pearl Harbor, but is determined to turn the tide. The key comes from Commander Joe Rochefort, a little known "code breaker" who cracks the Japanese military encryption. Admiral Chester Nimitz will know precisely what the Japanese are planning. On the Japanese side, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's key subordinates are Admiral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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Summary: The last year of the Civil War as seen by the two commanding generals, Grant and Lee. The novel is the final volume in a trilogy, begun by the author's father with The Killer Angels. In the Pulitzer prize-winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time, an enduring bestseller that has sold more than two million copies. In the bestselling Gods and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1998
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Summary: Three fictional stories, told in graphic novel format, about soldiers in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War who were aided by combat dogs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOOForester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)
Summary: In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Her first assignment under Hornblower's command is as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson. Soon Atropos is part of the Mediterranean fleet's harassment of Napoleon, recovering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1985
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Summary: As Napoleon launches an attack on Britain, Captain Will Laurence, accused of treason, escapes from his prison ship and sets out on a desperate quest to reunite with his fighting dragon, Temeraire, who has been consigned to breeding grounds in Wales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2000